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LaCygne Quarry: 78 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

La Cygne, Linn County, KS  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1401471

LaCygne Quarry has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
15
Years on record
1989–2008
Latest incident
Sep 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
78
citations
17
significant & substantial
$11,018
proposed penalties
$11,018
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
42
inspections on record
472
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 472 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

LaCygne Quarry has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $213 in penalties contested before the Commission, $213 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-08-30.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
21.8%
significant & substantial
1.3%
high negligence or reckless
21.8%
reasonably likely or greater
82.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.0% low, 89.7% moderate, 1.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-08-30.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT20020081M Settlement Barbour 2002 $113 → $113
CENT 2010-1180M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2017-11-13, 8 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
8
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz8
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2017-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.44 0.82 0.54 Truck Driver
2017-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.85 0.33 Truck Driver
2017-11-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.63 0.40 Cleanup Man
2011-09-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 1.58 0.22 Truck Driver
2011-09-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.7 2.34 0.30 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-09-08 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.2 1.79 0.67 Truck Driver
2008-04-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 1.53 0.21 Supervisor, Co. Official
2008-04-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 2.01 0.12 Cleanup Man
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

LaCygne Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2012.

Injury rate, 2012
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.48 and the all-US-mining average was 2.96 cases per 100 workers.
In Kansas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.52 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 8.12 8.12 0.000
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. N R Hamm Quarry LLC 1985 to 2026
  2. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. 2026 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 2
2024 4
2023 3
2022 7
2021 0
2020 4
2019 1
2018 4
2017 8
2016 10
2015 5
2014 6
2013 4
2012 11
2011 7
2010 8
2009 9
2008 9
2007 12
2006 10
2005 6
2004 7
2003 9
2002 10
2001 5
2000 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

LaCygne Quarry sits in Linn County, Kansas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Linn County, Kansas · Population 9,723
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$59,200
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 2,226 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 92 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,918 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,059 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 161 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 3,158 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,228 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,535 1 0 282.9
2022 Q2 3,854 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,013 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 6 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 1,020 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 698 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 6 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 34 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 300 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,319 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,725 2 0 423.3
2017 Q3 729 1 0 1371.7
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 4,304 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,879 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,523 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,454 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 53 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,954 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,022 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 5,316 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,495 1 0 668.9
2013 Q2 173 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 129 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 5,926 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 6,719 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 5,281 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,687 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,633 1 0 612.4
2011 Q3 2,928 1 0 341.5
2011 Q2 6,268 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 2,222 2 0 900.1
2010 Q4 2,952 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,068 5 0 1229.1
2010 Q2 4,859 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 4,819 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 2,645 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,209 3 1 575.9
2009 Q2 5,770 1 0 173.3
2009 Q1 5,188 2 0 385.5
2008 Q4 4,935 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 5,497 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,662 3 0 819.2
2008 Q1 5,431 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 7,895 2 0 253.3
2007 Q3 7,734 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,521 2 0 442.4
2007 Q1 4,478 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,872 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,406 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 6,183 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,988 3 0 752.3
2005 Q4 2,269 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,962 11 3 3713.7
2005 Q2 3,008 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,685 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 3,362 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,589 7 2 1525.4
2004 Q2 3,746 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,117 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,230 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 4,966 4 2 805.5
2003 Q2 5,356 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,111 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,742 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,401 7 2 1296.1
2002 Q2 6,827 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,295 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,075 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 125 15 6 120000.0
2001 Q2 2,934 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 943 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,565 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 4,659 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,855 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,512 2 0 443.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

15 on file

2008 · 1 incident

September 24, 2008 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was helping to lift a screen. Employee injured shoulder.

2007 · 1 incident

August 24, 2007 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver MACHINERY
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Struck by falling object

Employee was moving an impact hammer from a lower level to an upper level. Employee lifted the impact hammer and was unable to hold it and it dropped on his hand.

2003 · 1 incident

1999 · 1 incident

November 8, 1999 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING A STEEL GRATE AND FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

1998 · 1 incident

December 8, 1998 KS · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE WAS WALKING AROUND THE DRILL AND HE SLIPPED ON THE MUDDY SURFACE. AS HE FELL HE TRIED TO BREAK HIS FALL WITH HIS HANDS. THIS CAUSED A FRACTURE TO HIS LEFT HAND.

1997 · 1 incident

July 18, 1997 KS · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT MUD IN AND AROUND THE TAIL PULLY AND THE GUARD WHEN HIS HAND SLIPPED AND HIS RIGHT FOREARM WAS CUT BY THE CORNER OF THE GAURD. PLANT WAS LOCKED OUT.

1994 · 1 incident

August 24, 1994 KS · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EMPLOYE EWAS PULLING ON WATER HOSE AND FELT PULLING AND PAIN IN BACK.

1992 · 4 incidents

November 9, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE SAID HIS LEFT ARM HAS A PINCHED NERVE FROM DOING HIS JOB. HE WAS OFF WORK ON VACATION WHEN HE NOTICED PAIN AND WENT TO DOCTOR. IT WAS REPORTED TO OUR INSURANCE COMPANY AND HE STARTED RECEIVING LOSS TIME CHECKS 11-9-92.

August 10, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

74339NG ON WATER HOSE PULLED DISC IN LOWER BACK

July 16, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Fall from machine

54736YEE WAS STEPPING OFF A PLATFORM ONTO THE GROUND AND STEPPED INTO A RUT AND TWISTED ANKLE OF PILE.

February 27, 1992 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING GRATES TO PUT IN HAMMER MILL AND HURT BACK.

1991 · 1 incident

June 10, 1991 KS · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING A 4X8 SCREEN OVER HIS HEAD AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN LOWER BACK.

1990 · 2 incidents

November 26, 1990 KS · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver OTHER
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS SHOVELING OUT QUARRY SITE AND DRIVING DUMP TRUCK AND HAD CHEST PAINS.

June 13, 1990 KS · Metal/Non-Metal EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Struck by flying object

22 HOLE SHOT WITH 1 STICK OF 2" X 8" GELMAX IN EACH HOLE AND 4'10" OF MAYNER MIX WITH 3' OF STEMMING. ONE 2" X 2" PIECE OF ROCK FLEW OVER AND BOUNCED 2 TIMES IN HER DRIVE WAY AND HIT I.NAME ON THE RIGHT ARM. SHE WENT TO HOSPITAL FOR EXAM. INCIDENT OCCURRED AT I.NAME'S HOUSE, FRONT PORCH, ABOUT 400 YDS FROM QUARRY. BLAST AT TOP OF 15 LEDGE. PIT AREA CLEARED.

1989 · 1 incident

October 12, 1989 KS · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
N R Hamm Quarry LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

APPLYING BELT TREATMENT TO CONBEY BELT ILE BELT MOVING BELT MOVEMENT PULLED HAND IN HEAD PULLEY